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PLENTY OF TOEY MONEY NO ME TO SPEND IT the advertising by bv the state of certain tracts of grazing land on cedar and parowan carowan mountains for sale in connection with big sale of state lands here yesterday brought scores of people with pockets full of money to the scene of the sale all of them being intent on the purchase at al most any coot coa of those certain tracts the tracts concerning which there was the most interest hoi however vever including clouding a section of cedar mountain and what is locally known as dry lakes in parowan carowan mountains were under leases which did not elphe until sometime in the future and were therefore withheld with beld by the lessels lessees le from the sale so that the desired opportunity to spend those pockets full fall of money present itself some smaller tracts of mountain land however together with several sections of valley land were disposed of but a bip big pet per cent of the offerings were without a bidder A few sect sections ious sold at eribes ranging from four to seven dollars but mott moa of the valley land which sold brought slightly more than the appraised value of to 4 per acre the tp price of cie sale was reached the last thing chiti when five forties in the south end of Dry lakes were released and aid bid in by S C at 10 per acre it is not improbable that 15 would have been bid had the entire tract in that locality been released state land commissioner J T and chief deputy eliason were here personally to conduct them the sale